Two of the greatest of all time in country music...and their friendship was ruined over a poker game. Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard are undoubtedly two of the best to ever do it. But did you ever ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Even Merle Haggard gets nervous about stepping onto a stage when the audience is filled with songwriters, record label executives and fellow artists. “Well, it’s glorious but it’s ...

Merle Haggard is a country music icon. He wrote, recorded, and released some of the most memorable songs in the genre’s history. Songs like “Mama Tried,” “If We Make It Through December,” “Sliver ...

Eighty-three years ago today, the country singer and songwriter who wrote hits for Merle Haggard and other legends was born.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — He lived the kind of remarkable life that befits a character from a classic work of fiction — but the Merle Haggard story needs no fictional embellishment. His flawed, ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – One of Merle Haggard’s most famous songs was “Mama Tried,” but the woman who stood behind the Bakersfield-born singer longest in his life was his older sister Lillian, 17 ...

Singer and songwriter Lee Britt, who regularly performs in Lake County, has fond memories of crossing musical paths with Merle Haggard. Haggard, the Country Music Hall of Fame member who died April 6 ...

The Bakersfield singer-songwriter, who thrived after an early life of crime and a prison term in San Quentin, died on his birthday. By Chris Morris Merle Haggard, who overcame a youth of deprivation ...

Country music singer Merle Haggard and a concert promoter who is suing him for his last-minute cancellation of an October 2001 concert have agreed to a plan under which the singer's medical records ...